1. Issues and Politics of the Second World War

2. Technology and Communications  WW2 caused a very quick improvement in ________________used to fight the war  In Europe the _______and the _____were the main weapons  These two machines improved greatly during the war  Airplanes became ______, more ____________, and could carry more goods  Tanks also became _______, ______, and were more _______________

3. Technology and Communications  Not all technological improvements involved weapons  British developed ______– needed for the Battle of ___________  British and Americans developed _____– needed for Battle of the _____________  As a result the Allies had a huge __________over the Germans  German scientists developed the _________and ____ engine  But the war _________before they could use them

4. Technology and Communications  The _______was used by both sides to help keep the home front ____and _____of the events that were happening during the war  This was used to boost ________and also used to broadcast a lot of _____________  The ultimate tool of war was the development of the __________bomb  This weapon brought the war to an ____and also provided a ________to the possibilities involving any __________wars

5. War Time Conferences  During the war, the Allied leaders met often to discuss war ___________and what would happen once the Allies won the war  There were __ major conferences in all  ________, November-December 1943  Tehran conference was held in _____  First time that Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met  Meeting did not accomplish a lot but _________ relations were made between the two _________ leaders and the __________- _________

6. War Time Conferences  ________, February 1945  This conference was in the south of the ______ Union and made many decisions about the future of Germany 1.Germany was to be ___________into zones of occupation once the war was over 2.War crimes ________was to be established at Nuremburg 3.Stalin ___________to hold ______elections in the countries he was _____________from the Nazis  (He did ____keep his promise)

7. War Time Conferences  _____________, July 1945  Was held in near ________  The Allies were to make a decision about the ________of Germany and Europe  This was to be for planning the _________conference  But since democratic and communist leaders didn’t ____ each other, now that the war was over, it was more like setting up the _________ (the _____War)

8. The Holocaust  ____________: from the Greek holos (_____) and kaustos (________)  A term used to describe Hitler’s attempt to ______________all ______people in Europe during the Second World War  This resulted in the death of over ____________ Jewish people  Hitler was _________with the complete removal of the Jewish race

10. The Holocaust  Anti-Semitism  Before WW2 there were ________ German people who were of Jewish decent  Some Germans, who were _______of the success of Germany’s Jews, were easily convinced by Nazi ___________again Jewish people  Anti-Semitism spread __________throughout Germany  Adolf Hitler believed that this ______for Jewish people would bring all German people ______together, and also make them more ______and ______________  As a result of _____________(being treated badly for religious, racial, or political reasons) the Jewish people fled to ________________countries  The countries that the Jews fled to were soon _________by the Nazis  Many countries would ___________Jewish refugees because of anti-Semitic feelings among their own populations

11. The Holocaust  The St. Louis Incident  After ____________in 1938, many Jewish people tried to leave Germany  It had become more and more difficult and costly to obtain _______and the amount of money needed to enter another country  Immigration policies were much _________now  The ___________: _________provided an opportunity that seemed to be the last chance for Jews to escape  The ship was to take Jewish people from Germany and take them to _______  In Cuba the Jewish people would _____to enter the _____

12. The Holocaust  The St. Louis Incident  When they arrived in Cuba, the ship was told to _______in the harbour, but was _____allowed on _______  Long ___________________began  Unknown to the captain of the St. Louis, Cuba had passed a new ______mid-voyage, that ________landing permits that the Jewish people had _____________  Many people in Cuba ________incoming refugees for the poor _______________status  During negotiations to allow the St. Louis to land, Nazi Minister of ___________, Joseph Goebbels, sent ______to Cuba  He wanted to __________anti-Semitism and to ___________ criminal backgrounds for the passengers  The refugees were now seen as a __________

13. The Holocaust  The St. Louis Incident  After being turned away, the St. Loius attempted to land on __________East Coast with ____Jewish people  The Canadian government determined that Jewish refugees would _____make good _______  The St. Louis was forced to return to Europe and many of those passengers _______in Nazi __________________camps

14. The Holocaust  Ghettos  By 1939, ________ Jewish people were forced into ___________  These are ____________areas in a city where Jews were ________to live

15. The Holocaust  ____________________  By _______, Hitler’s obsession with the eliminating the Jewish race became a horrible reality called the final solution  Hitler ordered all Jews in Nazi occupied Europe to be ____________and sent to extermination camps  They were to be killed in _______in ________________  The was called _______________– the organized extermination of a religious or racial group  Jewish communities were _______into _________and shipped to concentration camps across German occupied territories  Many Jewish people _____on their ___to the camps, due to lack of _____, ________and _____on the trains

16. The Holocaust  Final Solution  Once they arrived at the camps, Jewish people were killed by _________, exhaustion, _______, torture, or _________  The Nazis also performed ________medical ___________, which was a horrible method of ___________  Prisoners were forced to ingest _____and ____substances to test their _______________(ex. Tetanus, malaria)  Powdered glass and wood ___________were mixed with water and ___________into their _________  Jewish people were thrown into vats of ______or _______ water  They were __________or denied _________treatment  _______prisoners were operated on without _________to test the effects of _________on a person

17. The Holocaust  Final Solution  After facing ______chambers, the ______fillings in teeth were _____________and given to Hitler  ______was made into _____________and _______  __________were used as _____________  _____was _________upon arrival and used to stuff mattresses  At __________Death camp alone, over _________ people were killed by Nazis  Millions of others were executed at other ______ because of their beliefs, race, or sexual orientation

18. The Holocaust  Final Solution  In total, it is estimated that _________people died in Nazi concentration camps during WW2  Of those __ million were ______, who remain the _____________group ever to face genocide  It is estimated that one million ________were also killed in the Holocaust

19. War Criminals and Crimes Against Humanity  The _________(murder, violence) committed by the Nazis were on a ______never seen before  As the war in Europe was ending, more and more ______camps were found. Making it clear how cruel the Nazis were  A decision was made by the _____that the Nazis would be ______________  Never before has the victorious leaders _______ charged the other leaders for their _________ actions during war

20. War Criminals and Crimes Against Humanity  In ______, the Allies set up a war crimes court at _________________  ______ Nazis were ________(charged) for crimes related to starting the war and during the Holocaust  Of the 177, ___________ were acquitted  Several of the guilty were ________, while most were given lengthy _________sentences